The Ready To Drink Podcast is built for founders, operators and leaders navigating the next era of beverage. These are honest conversations with the people doing the work, building brands that last in a crowded and regulated marketplace. Hosted by twenty-two year adult beverage industry veteran Nate Fochtman, the show pulls back the curtain on what actually drives growth - distribution strategy, regulatory navigation, sales velocity, and consumer trust.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Ready To Drink Podcast is built for founders, operators and leaders navigating the next era of beverage. These are honest conversations with the people doing the work, building brands that last in a crowded and regulated marketplace.
Recent episodes include "NFL Safety & UFC Fighter on Leadership & the Hemp Fight | Micah Hyde & Clifford Starks | Episode 100" (21 October 2026, 41 minutes), "Same Family, Different Drink: Rick Duchin of HopXL on Hops, Cannabis and the Future of Beer" (20 October 2026, 60 minutes), and "Solo Founders Wear Every Hat: Burnout, Boundaries and Building Alone | Steph Vrona, HighDef Studio" (7 October 2026, 45 minutes).
Ready To Drink Podcast publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 32 minutes across 98 episodes.
Booking probability for Ready To Drink Podcast is 42%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Ready To Drink Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Ready To Drink Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Ready To Drink Podcast are Beverages, Brewing & Distilling and Business & Management Consulting. Ready To Drink Podcast has a business audience.
Ready To Drink Podcast is a business show with 98 episodes published.
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Send us Fan Mail For the 100th episode of the Ready To Drink Podcast, two former pro athletes sit down with no script and no agenda. Micah Hyde spent 12 seasons as an NFL safety with the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo...
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Send us Fan Mail Hops and cannabis come from the same plant family, Rick Duchin has spent 35 years proving the science behind one can rewrite the other. He built his water-soluble technology to put cannabis into drinks...
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Send us Fan Mail Nobody warns you how many jobs you take on when you go solo. One day you are the strategist. The next day you are accounts receivable, sales, marketing and the CFO arguing with yourself about all of it...
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Send us Fan Mail Marty Nachel has spent 40 years in craft beer as a homebrewer, beer judge, writer and author of Beer For Dummies and Homebrewing For Dummies along with the NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON - International Beer...
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Send us Fan Mail Dan Serard is Chief Revenue Officer at Cannabis Creative Group, a full-service cannabis marketing agency near Boston that has worked with more than 600 brands. In this episode of the Ready To Drink...
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Send us Fan Mail Adam Borson of Highlandia says one of his favorite parts of the job is reaching back out to customers who leave reviews or send emails. In this clip he shares a message from a breast cancer survivor who...
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Send us Fan Mail What would a veteran tell a lawmaker about the impending hemp beverage ban? Jimmy Plunkett didn't hesitate. His biggest fear is what happens when we overtax, overregulate or outright prohibit a product...
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Send us Fan Mail There Are No Stupid Questions When Building a Beverage Brand | SailWell Founders SailWell co-founders Justine Charmley and Taylor Ondrejca started their women's functional beverage brand with no...
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Send us Fan Mail Jimmy Pluckett is an Army combat engineer, a construction tradesman and a co-founder of Pressure Goat, a hemp dispensary in Charlotte, North Carolina. On this episode of the Ready To Drink Podcast...
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Send us Fan Mail "It's not churn and burn. It's understanding your customer because you're there talking to them." Jared Langston of Good Liar NA Beer on why weekly in-store tastings are his best market research. Good...
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Send us Fan Mail Justine Charmley and Taylor Ondrejca are the co-founders of SailWell, a functional wellness ready-to-drink brand made by women, for women. College roommates turned lifelong friends, they built SailWell...
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Send us Fan Mail Josh Grigaitis is founder of Mighty Kind Co, a functional beverage brand and manufacturer out of St Louis, MO built around one idea. He was born without a sweet tooth and could not find non-alcoholic or...
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Send us Fan Mail Joanna Manzo Davis is CEO and co-founder of Top Dog Spirits, the company behind Top Dog Cocktails. She went to market in 2022 with full strength, twelve and a half percent ABV canned cocktails across...
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Send us Fan Mail Dean Yaukey is the founder, brewer, accountant, and janitor of Whiskers Brewing in Newville, Pennsylvania. Ten days before his planned opening, a fire gutted the building. The beer survived because it...
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Send us Fan Mail Adam Borson is the CMO for Highlandia, a premium hemp beverage built by Lift & Made, a company that's been in the hemp industry for over a decade. Highlandia went top 5 in Wisconsin within months of...
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Send us Fan Mail Carly Osman Holme founded Sprowt, a brand building firm for founders moving from niche to mainstream and legacy brands trying to find their way back to the customer. She's also building Frankie, a tool...
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Send us Fan Mail Jon Arrivo built OG Sodas out of a coffee shop in South Florida. Three years of retail testing later, he's bringing a craft hemp soda, CBD beverage and kava drink lineup to the mass market. In this...
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Send us Fan Mail Mary Bernuth co-founded Pharos Brands with her husband Rhyno Stenchfield, a company built as much on personal loss as on business strategy. Mary's first husband relied on cannabis through a rare blood...
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Send us Fan Mail Wesley Noyd is a field sales rep for Monster Energy in San Antonio and the founder of BEV edu, a training platform built to onboard new beverage sales reps and coach veterans who are stuck. No script...
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Send us Fan Mail Wesley Noyd built BEV edu, a training platform for small to mid-size distributors and emerging brands - BEVedu.co He built it because most companies talk about career paths and mentorship, but few...
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